Long Now -- Science Fiction to Science Fabrication; Or, Pulp to Prototype

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Science Fiction to Science Fabrication; Or, Pulp to PrototypeDan Novy & Sophia Brueckner | MIT Media LabCasting and Forging3000 BCEDIY BioPunk 1818Luigi Galvani1785Winston "Death Ray" Churchill1935*Not to ScaleWireless World magazine in 1945April 6th, 1965 Intelsat I Early BirdTASER - Jack Cover- NASA (1969)"Don't Taze me, bro!" he said shockingly.Red Planet Flexible DisplayFluid Interfaces Group FlexpadMIT Media LabA Young Lady's Illustrated PrimerThe NarratariumOne Laptop Per ChildDr. Stuart Hameroff - University of ArizonaTranscranial Ultrasoundscifi2scifab.media.mit.eduDan Novy - Object Based Media GroupSophia Brueckner - Fluid Interfaces GroupRobert Ettinger - the "father" of cryonics, begins lifelong quest after reading Neil R. Jones' 1931 story "The Jameson Satellite" when he was just 12 years old. Penfield Mood Organ A device which allows you to dial the mood you would like to have.Blade Runner (1982)"At his console he hesitated between dialing for a thalamic suppressant (which would abolish his mood of rage) or a thalamic stimulant (which would make him irked enough to win the argument). 'If you dial,' Iran said, eyes open and watching, 'for greater venom, then I'll dial the same. I'lldial the maximum..."Wilder G. Penfield1934 founded and became the first Director of McGill University's Montreal Neurological Institute.

Developed the "Montreal Procedure" with Herbert Jasper.

Stimulated the brain with electrical probes while the patients were conscious on the operating table and observed their responses.

Invasive, hacking the Wetware.8Mhz Standard Medical Ultrasound15 second blast to Prefrontal CortexDouble Blind Controlled for Placebo10 - 40 minutes of "elevated" moodMechanism? (Ion channel alternation?)Single study. Science Fiction to Science Fabrication"With a focus on the creation of functional prototypes, this class combines the analysis of classic and modern science fiction texts and films with physical fabrication or code-based interpretations of the technologies they depict." ‘Pataphysics (French: ‘pataphysique): The science of imaginary solutions.Co-Instructed with Sophia Brueckner -- http://www.sophiabrueckner.com/Originally created by Sophia as a Design based course at RISD.Joe Paradiso -- Faculty Advisor -- http://web.media.mit.edu/~joep/Bio.htmlAR / VR / SIMULATION / SIMULACRA / NETWORKS / NEUROTRIBE / POST-GEOGRAPHICCITY DYNAMICS / SURVEILLANCE / UTOPIA / DYSTOPIAAI / NANOTECHCYBORGS / TRANSHUMANISMINTERFACES / WEARABLESTHE ARTSANCIENT BELIEFS & FUTURE TECH (OR: SCIENCE FICTION ISN’T ABOUT THE FUTURE)Modular Topic System -- 2 Weeks Each -- Mix and MatchNew ModulesSPACE OPERA AND WAGON TRAINS IN SPACEGUILTY PLEASURESSPY TECH AND SUPERPOWERS???The Modern Mjölnir"I can smell burnt toast!"Author Visits"Indistinguishable From"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.--Arthur C. ClarkeSo a lot of the magic ...You’ve conjured some energy, some idea, some information from somewhere and put it in a tangible form. You conjure something into existence in a literal sense. A rabbit out of a hat. Something out of nothing. -- Alan MoorePainting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange, hostile world and us, a way of seizing the power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires. -- Pablo Picasso-- Coming Spring 2015Stage Illusion as Tufte-ian Information Display "Indistinguishable From"From Dee to Crowley to Maskelyne to MulhollandRitual Magick as User Experience DesignEnchanted Objects*: Human Computer Interaction and the Internet of ThingsMore to come!@NovySan - "Beachcomber on the shores of the unnatural" BFA, MA Theater - University of Illinois- Champaign-Urbana '93, '95Shamanic Performance in Pre-Agrarian SocietiesBegan Studying VR in 1993 on a CRAY supercomputer at UIUC16 Year veteran of the Hollywood Visual Effects IndustryWorked with Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sandra Bullock, Leonardo DiCaprio, and many more.Emmy Award ™ and Visual Effects Society Award for HBO's "The Pacific."Transmedia Experience DesignerMS - MIT -2013PhD - MIT - 2017 (expected)Sensory FictionCase and MollyProsthetics in SciFiL.I.M.B.OMandela - I am E-142H2K LAWYER- Felix Heibeck, Alexis Hope, Julie LegaultThe book and wearable support the following outputs:

Light (the book cover has 150 programmable LEDs to create ambient light based on changing setting and mood)SoundPersonal heating device to change skin temperature (through a Peltier junction secured at the collarbone)Vibration to influence heart rateCompression system (to convey tightness or loosening through pressurized airbags)Inspired by 'The Girl Who Was Plugged In' by James Tiptree.ElectromyographyEMG signals are detected over the skin surface and are generated by the electrical activity of the muscle fibers during contraction. Since each movement corresponds to a specific pattern of activation of several muscles, multi-channel EMG recordings, recorded by placing electrodes on the involved muscles, can be used to identify the movement. This concept has been applied in the development of myoelectric prostheses. Inspired by Warren Ellis’s Transmetropolitan“Case and Molly” is a prototype for a game inspired by William Gibson’s Neuromancer. It’s about the coordination between the virtual and the physical, between “cyberspace” and “meat”.-Greg BorensteinAnalyze the openness of the fist of the guide. Send information to the dupe about the openness of the guide’s hand.Using functional electrical stimulation (or FES) we can send a current through the dupe’s arm to activate specific muscle contractions in the dupe‘s hand.Maps the grasp of one person’s hand, directly to another’s.Also inspired by Neuromancer- Ermal Dreshaj and Sang-won LeighWhat is human scale in relation to cyberspace? What would that mean?- Paloma F. Gonzalez Rojas- Greg BorensteinPrototyping a real interactive machine learning system for legal discovery.Writing and illustrating a sci-fi comic telling the story of how it might feel to work in a law firm of 2050 that’s been transformed by this new technology.Designing the branding for an imaginary firm working in this field.6 random visualizations of 6 different locations inside the building E-14, from a top view.The Kinect sensing range is a triangle therefore the tracking visualizations are also triangles.The “Building E-14” may use this information to analyze and control what is happening inside of it.Not a surveillance state of architecture but an interactive system that augments the information available for the occupants of the building qualifying its spaces for the user to choose where to go according to their intentions.Daniel Suarez -- Kill DecisionElizabeth Bear -- Green and DyingJoe Haldeman -- None So BlindYou Did the Reading, Right? a.k.a Let's Do Design Exercises!Science Fiction to Science FabricationAuthors via Email William Gibson -- NeuromancerWarren Ellis -- TransmetropolitanCharlie Stross -- LobstersBruce Sterling -- Design FictionsYet again more Neuromancer"The building’s brain has emerged."* David Rose's awesome book.Infinite Futures - SXSW 2014"Science Fiction is not a genre anymore, it's a condition, it's become the ambient noise of culture."- @warrenellisWarren Ellis Daniel Suarez Bruce SterlingRisk Over SafetyPractice Over TheoryCompasses Over MapsA Culture of Prototyping- Guillermo BernalMIT Media Lab30 years of radical anti-disciplinary exploring.Grew out of the work of MIT's Architecture Machine Group, and remains within MIT's School of Architecture and Planning.Almost 100% industrially funded + NIH, NSF, and DARPACurrently headed by Joi Ito

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Kit Bashingrobots from junkmake a lightsaberspaceship designRifles and pistolsNapkin DesignGuilty Pleasures/Secret ObsessionMake a Poster for a non-existent technologyMake an ad for a non-existent technologyExquisite Corpse Object.Design one positive interaction with a robot and one evil oneDesign a wearable device Pick a surface or portion of the body not commonly used or unused before.Imagine a job that might exist in the future but doesn’t exist now Design a device that makes an existing job obsoletePick a favorite piece of Concept Art and explain how it could work, what wouldn’t work, what is possible today, what was well thought out, etc. (www.conceptart.org/‎, http://conceptartworld.com/ , etc)Do a quick design sketch of “NOUN + CULTURE/PERIOD/GENRE,” (ie. Robot + Arabic Middle Ages, Starship + WWII) randomly selected from two hats.Map the inputs of something to the outputs of something elseRead one SCP entry and sketch the technology/object/creature/phenomena used in the story: http://www.scp-wiki.net/main39x39 2.3Mhz w/ full layered attenuationnovysan@media.mit.eduhttp://novysan.com/NovySan@"Skip" Wilkins was asked calculate the amount of radio frequency power which should be radiated to raise the temperature of 8 pints of water from 98°F to 105°F at a distance of 5km and a height of 1km.RADARDeath Ray*"Heat-Ray" featured in H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds (1898)1930s were the heyday of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers.